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Obsession : sestinas in the twenty-first century / edited by Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Marilyn Krysl ; with an afterword by Lewis Putnam Turco ; designed and typeset in Albertina by Eric M. Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sestinas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Hanover, New Hampshire] : Dartmouth College Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The authoritative anthology of the unusual and challenging verse form, the sestina
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; AMERICANA; GRACE BAUER | A Little Like Dorothy; ALEX CIGALE | The Paul Bunyan Sestina; JAN CLAUSEN | Pigs Advance as Organ-Transplant Factories for People; MARTHA GOLENSKY | Presidential Potpourri; GEORGE HELD | Inauguration (1997) Sestina; A. VAN JORDAN | Time Reviews the Ziegfeld Follies Featuring Josephine Baker, 1936; MAXINE KUMIN | In Praise of the New Transfer Station; FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS | All-American Sestina; PATRICIA MONAGHAN | Loaded; MARILYN NELSON | Keeper of the Keys (1740); LUCIA PERILLO | The Van with the Plane
- ADA JILL SCHNEIDER | Brooklyn, 1941MURRAY SILVERSTEIN | Sestina to Bind a Goodbye; ALICE TEETER | The 103rd Birthday of Emma Regina Degraffenreid Smith; TONY TRIGILIO | Jean Hill; LAWANDA WALTERS | Marilyn Monroe; NAGUEYALTI WARREN | Strut; ART; SHERMAN ALEXIE | The Business of Fancydancing; JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT | Nature Morte; MARYANN CORBETT | The Art Student's Mother Thinks Out Loud; BARBARA LYDECKER CRANE | The Stone Carver; RHINA P. ESPAILLAT | People in Home Movies; ALICIA OSTRIKER | RVR: Work and Love; DANEZ SMITH | Godfather; LOVE AND SEX; RAEWYN ALEXANDER | Lightning Storm at Sea
- MICHELE BATTISTE | No SwimmingSHAINDEL BEERS | Why It Almost Never Ends with Stripping; DAN BELLM | Boy Wearing a Dress; KATE BERNADETTE BENEDICT | Tantalizing Sestina; RAFAEL CAMPO | Sestina in Red; MELISSA CANNON | The Sleeping Beauty; KELLY CHERRY | Wintering; BLAS FALCONER | A Definition of Terms; JENNIFER GIVHAN | Chicken-Hearted; JULIANA GRAY | Clark Kent Leaves the Optometrist; ELOISE KLEIN HEALY | Louganis; KATE LIGHT | Diary Three (Tchaikovsky); BRUCE MEYER | The Lovers' Sestina; DEBORAH MIRANDA | Quickening; HONOR MOORE | First Time: 1950
- DIANE LOCKWARD | Why I Read True Crime BooksGAIL STOREY | Noah's Sestina for Raven and Dove; DAVID TRINIDAD | Playing With Dolls; PRAMILA VENKATESWARAN | The Art of the Invisible; DIANE WAKOSKI | Sestina from the Home Gardener; CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW | Book of Ruth; MEMORY, CONTEMPLATION, RETROSPECTION, AND DEATH; JULIA ALVAREZ | Bilingual Sestina; HERMAN BEAVERS | The Relative of Fear; ROBIN BECKER | Sad Sestina; MICHAEL CANTOR | The River Children Come of Age; JAMES CUMMINS | Tiresias; DENISE DUHAMEL | Six-Fingered Sestina; NAUSHEEN EUSUF | Evening; NOLA GARRETT | Decoration Day
- MARILYN HACKER | Towards AutumnJEFFREY HARRISON | Essay on a Recurring Theme; MARTHA KALIN | Glowing Doors; MARILYN KRYSL | Warscape, With Lovers; AUSTIN MACRAE | The Organ Builder; CHARLOTTE MANDEL | Six; ANGELA CONSOLO MANKIEWICZ | Sestina for Solo Nights; JOAN MAZZA | It Comes in Waves; MARY MERIAM | A Tragedy of Flowers; JOSEPH MILLS | W. S. Merwin Tells a Story During Q & A; LENARD D. MOORE | A Quiet Rhythm of Sleep; ALFRED NICOL | Clock; BARBARA J. ORTON | Minds Innocent and Quiet; MARIE PONSOT | Half-Life: Copies to All Concerned; JAY ROGOFF | Leonine; PATRICIA SMITH | Ethel's Sestina
- ELEANOR SWANSON | Miami Beach, Moonrise
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61168-530-3
- OCLC:
- 870892761
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